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Back at Abnormal Interests, Duane Smith has been talking off-and-on about a few interesting terms that appear to have made their rounds across the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean Sea and Near East, diffusing into a number of language families along the way. These words can serve as an inspiring focus of new conversation. The headings below are linked back to Duaine's scholarly entriread more

Duane at Abnormal Interests lately quoted an English translation of Plato's Politikós 263d:
"But indeed, my most courageous young friend, perhaps, if there is any other animal capable of thought, such as the crane appears to be, or ...

Duane Smith over at Abnormal Interests makes mention of The birds in the Iliad - Identities, interactions and functions by Karin Johansson. This is an excellent and welcomed addition to educational resources on the net and I will be...

Back in April, Duane on Abnormal Interests had been pondering on the origin of the wanderwort "wine". (See Abnormal Interests: Friday Culture Word: wyn(?), wine.) The topic is a rich universe unto itself and it's easy to lose train ...